A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
Carl Reiner

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
Carl Reiner

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
Carl Reiner

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
Carl Reiner